Rutvi Padhy Poems

Like a drop of rain it had embraced my heart,

And like the drop itself, love had drifted away,
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Smile dear heart, smile,

Do not show those tears to the mind,
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I'm not used to showing what I feel,

Perhaps you wouldn't have felt the same,
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It was the last letter on a winter cold,

It was the last paper with that sweet floral scent,
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I wish to sit beneath the arms of a maple tree,

And watch its autumn leaves depart their twigs,
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When I speak of you, there's always so little to tell. But I knew that, of course. That it'd be a hide and seek. That I'd always be looking out for words and words, they'd be looking for you. You see, they were scheming. To capture you, to lock you up in the castle that I was. But you were too beautiful. Always too beautiful to be captured by them. Too free. Too wild, like the wind. And they warned me, they did. That winds, one day, would turn into storms.

And I was a castle, the most magnificent of them all.
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With you, I knew I could hold my breath. Because you lived right down there, on the ocean floor. And I had to swim back up so many times that I had barely any time left for you. For us. And so, I made my choice. I chose you. Over the blue skies, I chose you. Over the sun, the moon and stars, I chose you. And your depths. Yes, I made my choice. I chose you because I knew it was the right thing to do. Because you were everything to me and so much more. And I couldn't take you with me, to out there, to the world where I lived and breathed. Where you and others like you were but a fancy thing of jewellery. Oh, you were my pearl! So rare. So beautiful! I couldn't do that to you, to reduce you to something so ordinary and unreal.
You deserved so much more.
And I knew. That if you couldn't be a part of my silly, little world (and I didn't want you to be a part of it) , I at least could be a part of yours.
I knew that. I knew I could learn how to breathe. I knew I wouldn't miss the rain, or the wind or everything I ever loved. Because the love I had for you was so much more. I knew that. I knew everything!
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To let thy fingers entwine with mine,
To let thy soft breath tease my skin,
To let thy heart beat closer to me,
To let myself yet again love thee,
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That silence,
It sheds no tears at souls in shrouds,
That silence,
It watches the world in shreds,
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How must I overlook these eyes...
The divine azure that looks through me...
How must I resist its depths?
These eyes, they could ruin me...
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